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A Decreto Legge (decree-law) is an emergency decree issued by the Italian government (the Council of Ministers, headed by the President) with the force of law, subject to parliamentary ratification within 60 days. If not ratified, the decree loses effect retroactively.
Decreto Legge has been used to make significant changes to Italian citizenship law, including the 1992 reform (originally issued as a decree-law before ratification as Law 91/1992).
Other types of Italian legislation include: Legge (ordinary law passed by Parliament), Decreto Legislativo (legislative decree, issued by the government under parliamentary delegation), and Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica (presidential decree).
Related terms
Jure sanguinis (Italian for 'right of blood') is the Italian citizenship-by-descent regime, which has no generational limit and is the most accessible CBD regime in Europe.
A 1948 case is a judicial petition for Italian citizenship filed in the civil court of Rome, available to descendants of Italian women who gave birth before January 1, 1948.
The anagrafe is the Italian civil registry office that maintains records of residents, births, marriages, and deaths in each Italian commune (municipality).
An atto di nascita is an Italian birth certificate, retrieved from the anagrafe (civil registry) of the commune where the person was born.
Stato civile (civil status) refers to the Italian system of civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths, maintained by the anagrafe in each commune.
A comune is an Italian municipality — the basic unit of local government. There are 7,900+ comuni in Italy, each with its own anagrafe (civil registry).